"Knowledge is the true organ of sight not…" — Jared Diamond

"Knowledge is the true organ of sight not the eyes"

— Jared Diamond

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88 Quotes by Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond has 88 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural…
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being…
In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex…
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago…
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of…
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions…
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long…
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you…
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end…
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared…

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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to… — Aristotle
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,… — Rowan Atkinson
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like… — David Attenborough
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the… — Saint Augustine
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He… — Teresa of Avila
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces… — Teresa of Avila
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what… — Richard Bach
We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which… — Michele Bachmann
Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God. — Abu Bakr

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